tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21171300739751175652024-02-18T20:23:20.028-08:00Heather Smith MelocheHeather Smith Melochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596283275006060364noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2117130073975117565.post-67196142871392044962017-07-20T08:40:00.000-07:002017-07-29T18:15:19.005-07:00Pitch Wars 2017 Mentor Information<br />
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Heather Smith Melochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596283275006060364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2117130073975117565.post-6416747311808520082017-02-03T08:41:00.001-08:002017-02-03T08:45:03.466-08:00February Daily Poetry Project - February 2<br />
I was so kindly invited to join the 5th Annual February Daily Poem Project, an event started by Laura Shovan, a fabulous poet, fellow <a href="https://thesweetsixteens.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Sweet Sixteener</a>, and friend. This year, the group of poets (that is growing daily!) takes turns pulling 10 words from an article, and then we each incorporate those words into a poem. We can alter the form of the words if creativity begs for it, and we can opt to leave one or more words out. However, we strive for complete inclusion of the chosen words or sometimes, phrases.<br />
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Today, I'm sharing my poem from February 2 pulled from <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/02/01/512856220/trump-gets-his-man-at-the-state-department" target="_blank">this NPR article</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">worldview</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">help</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">shareholders</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">safer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">protections</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">dishonest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">media</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">replace</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">business</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Messiah</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><b>SUSPENSION</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">bite her tongue when, on
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">they made notice and poked
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">at her old clothes, her
crookedly cut hair,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">her frequent lack of hygienic
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media lore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Messiah-driven,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">just a simple shake to
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">to those elite shareholders
of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">A Sharpie in an empty
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Then on Jordan Stanveer’s
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Brent Wickhab’s pants,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">as our quiet girl had stumbled
on it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">That afternoon on into
night, she hid in shadows,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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indiscretions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">thought safe and secret,
she took <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">her power for all she’d
been through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">And when they dragged
her from the school,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">set to book and to fine
her, she smiled, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">And now our girl is myth,
she’s lore, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">her lesson forever drawn
to clear;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">it is the quiet ones who
rise, who dare,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lest you forget they’re
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Heather Smith Melochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596283275006060364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2117130073975117565.post-4047388082994627152016-09-20T07:21:00.000-07:002016-09-20T07:21:58.068-07:00It's Release Day!<br />
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<br />Heather Smith Melochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596283275006060364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2117130073975117565.post-60114784097320284282016-09-08T01:00:00.000-07:002016-09-19T08:10:00.219-07:00Release Day is Almost Here!!<h2>
<b>RIPPLE COMES OUT ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2016!!!</b></h2>
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RIPPLE is a YA Contemporary that looks at how compulsion in the lives of two teens shapes who they are and the choices they have to make. Check out the reviews coming in on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25721433-ripple" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>!!<br />
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Tessa doesn't understand why she can't stop cheating on her boyfriends. She only knows she gets a rush and a feeling of power from her trysts in neighboring towns -- and that rush is so welcome when there is so much ugliness and pressure at home. But when the wrong person from her high school accidentally walks in on her in the most revealing of situations, Tessa suddenly finds herself doing everything she can to cover her tracks. <br />
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Jack doesn't see his habit for destruction of public property or his love of screwing with authority figures as anything but a way to release the pressure from his home life. His mom is an all-out mess, and his home life is absolutely whacked-out crazy, but it's <em>his</em> mom and <em>his</em> life, and he'll do whatever he needs to in order to keep it together. <br />
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The story of RIPPLE navigates Tessa and Jack through their all-too-adult lives as they wrestle with their own destructive habits and struggle to find each other as well as the best parts of themselves. <br />
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<br />Heather Smith Melochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596283275006060364noreply@blogger.com3